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We've done it! m23 rock 11.4 is ready - and now Debian Squeeze is available as an additional client distribution and TDE (which can be seen as a continuation of KDE3) was added to the list of desktop interfaces to choose from.

Everybody who used KDE3 before and missed it painfully in the new distributions can now use an alternative: TDE (Trinity Desktop Environment) can now be installed with m23 on Debian Squeeze clients. The differences to the KDE3 you are used to are so irrelevant - except for some small details - that KDE3 users will find their way around the new desktop easily. Of course, there is not only the Trinity desktop available, but also the corresponding program packages.

There have been made improvements on the installation of KDE4, too. By default, gstreamer is now used as backend for the multimedia API Phonon, which is quite useful - as multimedia content (for example audio streams in amarok) can now be played right away.

We had to make some adjustments for m23 to be able to install Debian Squeeze. For example, the m23-xorg.conf generator, which is necessary to set up the graphic mode and the VirtualBox guest additions automatically, was made more robust and now supports newer VirtualBox versions. In this context, the m23 installation routine for the VirtualBox server was adapted for the automatic setup on Debian Squeeze (and other Linux distributions using the same VirtualBox version). Because of their new LSB conformity, the m23 initscripts are now executed smoothly and on time.

To make it possible that software packages can be installed using non-default settings, we added configuration pages for the packages from Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu Lucid that give you the same adjustment options as in manual installation and package configuration.

The m23 user interface now offers more information about clients both installed with m23 and integrated into m23. So now the client properties of both show the first and last name of the main user, the system language, user and group numbers for LDAP and extensive DMI information. Moreover, the readability of the m23 interface was improved by showing table rows in alternating colours in many dialogues. The client status in the client task overview is now shown in the language of the m23 interface.

And of course, there have also been some corrections and bug fixes. Making and deployment of disk and partition images is working again. The m23 server installation program will now find the drive with the installation CD in every case (thanks to the two hardworking administrators Stephan and Bernd) and will adjust the keybord language for the local terminal correctly. The client boot media for amd64 now also contain the file libresolv.so.2, which is necessary for lspci, so more hardware information can be sent to the m23 server. Further minor changes, which cover several configuration 'special cases', which occur in practice, were added to the m23 packages so m23 can work smoothly. More about those minor changes can be found in the Changelog.

The new version is available as an update from the m23 interface, via APT, as ISO file for burning the m23 server installation CD or as preinstalled virtual machine (the two last to be found in the Download section).

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2015-07-27
cha: m23Backup: Now stores the firewall settings too.
new: firewall.php: Page for changing and (de)activating the firewall.
new: de / firewall.hlp:
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2015-07-26
new: CFirewall::exportRules: Exports the set iptables rules to a rule file (generated with iptables-save).
new: CFirewall::putScript: Writes script code in the iptables script.
new: CFirewall::executeScript: Executes the iptables script.
new: HELPER_grepCount: Counts the lines from $string seperated by $cut that contain $search.
new: CFirewall::activateInInterfaces: Activates auto-loading of the iptables rules in the interfaces file.
new: CFirewall::isActive: Checks, if auto-loading of the iptables rules in the interfaces file is active.
new: HELPER_grepNot: Returnes all lines from $string seperated by $cut that do NOT contain $search.
new: CFirewall::activate: Activates the firewall.
new: CFirewall::deactivate: Deactivates the firewall.
new: CFirewall::getSatusIconHTML: Generates a HTML status icon to indicate the status of the firewall.
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2015-07-23
new: HELPER_netmaskAmountOfSetBits: Calculates the amount of set bits in a network mask (as used in the short form of netmasks).
new: HELPER_networkCalculator: Calculates the network IP by a given IP and the netmask.
new: getServerNetwork: Get the network IP of the m23 server.
new: CFirewall::clearIPtablesSettings: Clears all currently set iptables rules.
new: CFirewall::scriptFileExists: Checks, if the iptables script file exists.
new: CFirewall::rulesFileExists: Checks, if the iptables rules file exists.
new: CFirewall::writeDefaultScript: Writes the default iptables script, if there is no script.
new: CFirewall::getScript: Gets the contents of the iptables script.
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2015-07-20
cha: HELPER_getContentFromURL: Now has an extra parameter, to allow partial downloads.
cha: PKG_getDebootstrapCacheSfURL: Now returns an alternate mirror, if the file from the 1st host is not valid.
cha: up-frs-basesys: Now uploads the basesys to goos-habermann.de too.
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2015-07-18
cha: configXOrgVMware: Now doesn't detect vmxnet3 driver as VMWare guest.
cha: setLog.php, setStatus.php: Included the required files for CLIENT_getClientName.
new: SRCLST_possiblem23debsMirrors: Returns an array with mirrors for m23 debs.
new: SRCLST_checkm23debsMirror: Checks, if the url contains a valid mirror for m23debs.
new: SRCLST_getWorkingm23debsMirror: Get the url of a working m23debs mirror.
cha: SRCLST_loadSourceList: Now is SRCLST_loadSourceListFromDB.
new: SRCLST_loadSourceList: Loads and returnes the package source list and tries to find a valid mirror for m23debs.
cha: uploadClientPackagesToSF: Now uploads the packages to goos-habermann.de too.
cha: CLIENT_showLog: Now checks, if the status message and its status are separated by "°" or "?".Show full changelog >>

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m23 was updated with the m23 update manager 6616 times. All m23 files were downloaded from Sourceforge 28325 times with a total size of 7940.32 GB.